Activities at Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. Stone carvers carve sculptures on the cathedral building. The Washington National Cathedral (3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States) shown under construction. View of Gothic interior of the Washington National Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the City and Diocese of Washington. Limestone grotesques and rose window adorn the Washington National Cathedral. A minister undertakes proceedings. Dignitaries visit the cathedral on special occasions. Queen Elizabeth II and United States President Gerald Ford attend a church service. Two men lay down the last slab to complete the nave. Dignitaries attend the funeral of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. View of the tomb of Woodrow Wilson. On the Open House Day celebration, a large crowd of visitors gather at the cathedral. The visitors listen to the demonstration of finest organs. They listen as a man plays piano. They visit the bell tower and ring the bell. The Open House Day celebration ends with service of thanks given in the cathedral. People sing carols. The dean of the cathedral comments on several dedication services held. The cathedral pipers perform and end the celebration.
A film titled 'While The City Sleeps' about the importance of trucking industry for the way of life of a large city like New York City. Automobile traffic on roads at night and neon lights lit up in Times Square, New York City. Neon lights scenes continue, superimposed with other images: People in various clubs and restaurants. People dance. A man plays a trumpet. Hands of a couple overlapped, holding hands. Superimposed images end. View of a bell hop who blows a whistle. A couple enters a taxi cab to go home. A waiter removes a table cloth and a salt shaker from a table. Bell hop takes off his uniform after the day's work. A musician puts a trumpet in a case. Lights are turned off at night. A security guard walks in front of quiet buildings. Trucking activities are shown continuing during the night. Sign for the Port Authority of New York Holland Tunnel entrance. Cars and trucks entering the Holland tunnel. Delivery of fruit, milk, gasoline, newspapers, coal, bread and many other things. Night view of traffic crossing the Queensboro Bridge also called the 59th Street Bridge. Building material is delivered. An Esso gasoline truck delivers fuel to a petrol or service station. Close up view of moving tires on a truck. Stacks of newspapers slide down a chute to a waiting truck. A Canal Coal Company truck delivers coal to a building. The coal trip bed is shown tipping and elevating to dump the coal. Bakery employees load bread into trucks of the Cushman's bakery. A truck dumps sand. Another truck picks up a plant from a nursery. A car carrier truck is shown carrying four new automobiles on a two level flatbed system. View of skyscrapers of Manhattan in early morning after dawn. A hand reaching for an alarm clock to shut it off in the morning. Two feet seen turning off of a bed and into a pair of waiting slippers. Man gets out of his bed.
U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bombers in England during World War II. Crew members watch B-17s returning from a mission. Crew members pose near the nose of a B-17. The name on the B-17 reads "Memphis Belle." 23 bombs are painted on its side, representing 23 bombing missions. Another B-17 displays the name "Desperate Journey" and 7 bombs, for seven missions. B-17s taxi. Crewmen lying on grass. Many officers and crewmen around the "Memphis Belle."
Documentary film 'Flight to the Future' shows experimental aircraft at Muroc Army Air Field (Edwards Air Force Base) in California, United States. U.S. Air Force F-94 Starfire, B-66 Destroyer, C-123 Provider, Piasecki H-21 helicopter, C-54 Skymaster, C-47 Skytrain, T-33 Shooting Star aircraft parked at an airbase. Dry land with a few bushes around the airbase. Men raise canvas covered door of hangar. Bell YP-59 A aircraft taxis out of the hangar. Bell YP-59 A aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway.
Bell Aerosystems Test Pilot Harold Graham demonstrates Rocket Belt Flight backpack (Small Rocket Lifting Device, SRLD) on grounds of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, United States. Man removes cover from the device kept on a table. Military personnel, Pentagon workers, and civilians gathered to watch the flight. Fire brigade along the flight area. Men, women and children stand behind barricaded area. Assistants strap Bell Aerosystems test pilot Harold Graham to the rocket belt flight device. He wears the rocket pack (some might call it a jet pack) on his back like a backpack and grips control handles that extend around to the front from the sides. He takes off from the ground. Two men dressed in traditional American colonial military costumes stand beside the pilot. Photographers take pictures.
A film covers the progress in development of specialized communication,command and control hardware of the NASA Gemini Agena target vehicle in Sunnyvale, California. Women assemble breadboard. Men work on forward equipment rack section of Agena space vehicle. Agena being pushed on a dolly. Tank section and forward equipment rack section being moved on dollies. An Agena equipment on rack. Agena Target Vehicle (ATV) mock up emphasizes engine and aft section. Bell technician inspect Secondary Propulsion System (SYS) module and service panel. Technician at Bell inspect multiple restart engine model 8247 in test cell.
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